I'm not sure if I've missed a part or am lacking chapter distinction because I'm listening in audio, but o wanted to clarify that the female / The Girl perspective seems to be talking to and with inadiment objects?
Lot more dialogue than I'm used to from cormac and the shifting perspectives and chapters have me a bit lost – or I skipped some parts in sort !
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GoogleAI helped me out. Did you enjoy this format from cormac ?
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy primarily features two narrative perspectives:
* Bobby Western: The main narrative follows Bobby, a salvage diver haunted by the death of his brilliant but troubled sister, Alicia. His story is told in the third person, though his thoughts and feelings are central to the reader’s experience.
* Alicia Western: Interspersed throughout the novel are italicized sections that focus on Alicia. These sections often take the form of dialogues between Alicia and hallucinatory figures, most notably the “Thalidomide Kid.” These passages offer a direct, first-person perspective into her fractured mental state.
While the majority of the novel adheres to these two primary narrative threads, McCarthy’s style often blurs the lines between narration and dialogue. Characters frequently engage in lengthy philosophical conversations and monologues that could, in a sense, be seen as temporary shifts in perspective. However, the overarching narrative structure consistently returns to Bobby’s third-person experience and Alicia’s first-person hallucinatory world.
Therefore, it’s most accurate to say that The Passenger has two main narrators: Bobby Western (through the lens of a close third-person) and Alicia Western (in the first person during her italicized sections).